I recently used an online guide for installation of Fedora, such that I would be able to use Windows XP or Fedora as necessary. Since this forum won't allow me to post the URL, you can find it by doing a Google search for "Dual Boot Fedora Linux and Windows XP, resizing NTFS". I first used qtparted to free 6 GB of hard drive; due to limitations in the Windows XP defragmenter, I was unable to free any more without wiping my memory.

I then installed Fedora using Anaconda and entered a desired username and password into Setup Agent. Shortly thereafter, I was prompted for my username and password at a graphical login screen, but upon entering them, I received the error message, "Incorrect username or password. Letters must be typed in the correct case." I also tried logging in as "root" and as no username, both of which also failed. I tried reinstalling Fedora, using a different username of exactly eight characters (as per the website's recommendation), with the same result. What can I do to correct this? Note that this is my very first experience with Linux. Thanks in advance for your help.

Hi.

The only thing I can think of is that the keyboard layout Anaconda thinks you have isn't the same as the layout the login screen thinks you have.

This shouldn't be a problem if you're only using the A-Z and 0-9 keys for your passwords, though. Make sure Caps Lock isn't on when Anaconda asks for the password and when you try to log in too.

Dave

I have tried entering the password both with caps lock on and off, although my password consists solely of lowercase letters a - z and digits 0 - 9.

Thanks for the URL, but the discussion is too technical for me. Specifically, I don't understand how to enter single-user mode or how to access boot options in GRUB. Typing "chmod /mnt/sysimage" from rescue mode failed. I don't know what yum-update or RPM are. I don't know how to "change the permissions on bash". Any help would be appreciated.

Use the installation CD and enter "linux rescue" at the boot prompt

http://www.samspublishing.com/articl...69466&seqNum=3

After you have logged on in single user mode, you can reset the root and user passwords:

Enter "root passwd <password>"

Now you can log in as root:

Enter "su" and give it the new root password

Then "passwd <username> <password>"

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...+root+password

I booted from CD 1, entered "linux rescue", and went through a few dialog boxes until I reached the command prompt. After entering the command "passwd root", I received the error, "passwd: unable to set failure delay". When I tried "passwd <my_username>", it said, "passwd: Unknown user name '<my_username>'." "passwd root <password>" and "passwd <my_username> <password>" gave, "Only one user name may be specified". "root passwd" and "root passwd <password>" gave the error message, "sh: root: command not found". Does anyone know how I can correct this?

It looks like entering linux rescue at the boot prompt already logs you in as root....so I am having difficulty seeing how you will reset the root password

But, to reset the user password enter

"passwd " and then your username, not LITERALLY "passwd <username>" (The < > was meant for you to fill in the appropriate value between them, not just parrot what I placed there (i.e. "<username>"))

It should prompt you for the new username's password

That's what I tried.

Once you use the CD to login as root, can you do

"su <user>" to become that user? If so, then you you can change that user's password using "passwd"

When you are entering these commands, you aren't including the <> 's, are you?

I am not using the "<" and ">" characters in my entries, but rather replacing the text "<username>" with the username that I entered into Setup Agent. Trying "su " and then my username once again produced the error, "unknown user name '<my_username>'."

Perhaps this might help reveal the problem. When I entered, "adduser <desired_username>", trying to add both the username I had selected previously and a different username, I received both times the error message, "adduser: error opening group file".

Also, a minor correction: using "su " followed by my username produced the exact error message, "su: user <my_username> does not exist".

when you are logged in a single user mode, can you go to the /home directory?

cd /home

once you're there enter ls and look to see what users actually exist in the /home directory. The usernames you are trying to enter should be one of those.

When I enter, "cd /home", I get the error message, "sh: cd: /home: No such file or directory".

Now I've run into a brick wall....if you're running fedora and don't have a /home directory, something's non-standard....

maybe there's some permissions thing amiss when logging into single user mode...don't know....

try

cd /

and then use cd to work your way down the filesystem, looking for /home

look at the man page for cd to see how it works, "man cd" (space to scroll down screen, arrow keys should work, and q to quit it)

if no one else helps you here, try posting at justlinux.com (same format there)